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WAIN, Peter Jenkins
(Service number 7/138)

Major P J Wain — (Auckland Weekly News, 6 January 1916, p.50 (supplement) )

Officers of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles at Addington Camp, Christchurch, August 1914. — Back row: Lieutenants L Chaytor, Taylor, Barker, W Deans, F Gorton, Hayter, D S Murchison.
Second row: Lieutenant Marchant, Captain Talbot, Lieutenant Blackett, Captain Hurst, Captain Hammond, Lieutenant Free, Lieutenant Bruce.
Sitting: Major Wain (O.C. 8th Sqd.), Captain Cody (Q.M.), Major Overton (2nd in Command), Lieutenant-Colonel Findlay (C.O.), Captain Blair (Adjutant), Major Acton-Adams (O.C. 1st Sqd.), Major Hutton (O.C. 10th Sqd.).
Front row: Lieutenant Gibbs (Signalling Officer), Tommy the mascot, Lieutenant Davison (Machine Gun Officer), Lieutenant G Dailey. (Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, PAColl-5268-2-01 )

1st Contingent 8th S.C.M.R. to leave Waimate for the 1914-1918 War — Pictured are:
Back: Rainey, G; Frost, R; Julian, W; Cochrane, John; Tennant, John; Cochrane, James; Nichol N; Cameron, C; Robins; Rickman, E A; ?
3rd R: McKenzie, J (alexander John); Duggan, M; Tobin ,J; Tavendale, W; Campbell, J; Gynes; Hodgson, J; McKenzie, R S (Percy?); Samuels, H [actually Henry Samuel Miniss]; Copland; Fitzharris, P; Gill, J
2nd R: Fraser; Whitta, J H; Carr, J; Manchester, A R; Wain, P J; Finlay, John; Bailey, G C; Sloan, P; Bell, N; Menzies, W; Spencer, E; Ryan, E
Front: McGrath, W; Keane, T; Wall, T; Hunt; ?; Hogan, H (Courtesy of Waimate Museum & Archives, P2183 )

Aliases
First Rank	Major	Last Rank	Major

Birth

Date	12/12/1867	Place of Birth	Dunedin

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Waimate
Occupation	Sheep farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Married. Seven children
Next of Kin	Mrs WAIN (wife), Riverlands, Waimate, South Canterbury
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	(1) Main Body; (2) New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	(1) Canterbury Mounted Rifles; (2) 37th Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles Brigade
Date	(1) 16 October 1914; (2) 23 April 1918
Transport	(1) Tahiti or Athenic; (2) Willochra
Embarked From	(1) Wellington; (2) Wellington	Destination	(2) Southampton, Hampshire, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Mounted Rifles

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Shrapnel wound in right thigh at the Dardanelles. Heatstroke

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	21 September 1938	Age	70 years
Place of Death	Auckland
Cause
Notices	Timaru Herald, 24 October 1938
Memorial or Cemetery	Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland
Memorial Reference	Returned Servicemen's Section, Block E, Row 1
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Peter Jenkins Wain was the son of Job John and Catherine (née Jenkins) Wain. Born in 1868 in Dunedin, he attended George Street and North East Valley schools there. Peter married Sophia Elizabeth Macdonald in 1896 and had seven children when he enlisted in 1914. Major Wain left Timaru in command of the 8th Mounted Rifles, in August 1914. He waswounded at the Dardanelles.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [10 May 2017]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [10 May 2017]; Waikumete Cemetery Auckland headstone image (South Canterbury Branch NZSG cemetery records) [10 May 2017]; Press, 8 July 1915, New Zealand Herald, 23 September 1938, Press, 24 October 1938 (Papers Past) [10 May 2017]

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